The collectibles market has been rocketing into what many call its "golden age," and now Dynamics Inc. believes it's about to define the rules of that new era. The security and technology innovator recently announced The Authority™, a vertically integrated, real-time marketplace designed to rethink how collectors buy, vault, authenticate, grade, and sell their prized items.
With more than 9 million authenticated comics, cards, TCGs, and figurines in their Vault™, The Authority instantly becomes the largest authenticated and vaulted collectibles marketplace in the world. But its most disruptive element may be something the industry has never offered: a universal public grading standard, a transparent, consistent set of criteria explaining exactly how every grade is determined.
"The golden age of collectibles is happening right now," said Jeffrey Mullen, CEO of Dynamics Inc. "Collectors now have full visibility into the exact criteria behind each grade, at a fraction of the time and cost. This is a game-changing, first-of-its-kind ecosystem that will transform the collectible industry at large."
A Fully Integrated Platform for Collectors Built for Speed and Trust
The Authority isn't an incremental upgrade to existing marketplaces; it's a fully integrated system designed to collapse what used to be weeks of waiting, shipping, grading, and fulfillment into mere minutes.
Collectors can onboard items in two ways:
1. Instant Digital Transfer from Channel Retailers
With participating retailers, buyers can simply choose "Vault With The Authority™" and the item appears in their account within seconds, immediately ready to be graded, sold, or shipped home.
2. Direct Submission to The Authority
People can mail in any item to be authenticated, encapsulated, graded, and vaulted. Cards can also be stored raw if authentication isn't required.
Once in the platform, each item is indexed, tagged, tracked, and stored inside The Authority Vault, Dynamics' secure, high-tech storage facility designed to eliminate fraud and guarantee authenticity.
A Marketplace Built to Eliminate Guesswork, Fraud, and Friction
One of The Authority's standout promises is its shift from subjective guesswork to consistent, standardized grading. Select items purchased through partnered retailers will arrive pre-graded and ultrasonically encapsulated, enabling buyers to simply "Reveal Grade™" with the tap of a button. During physical fulfillment, that grade is permanently added to the case.
A New Era for Grading: Transparent, Teach-Able, and Public
In plain language, exactly how grades are determined has been a bit of a guessing game in the past. For an industry long criticized for ambiguity and opacity, this is an inflection point.
The Authority's new grading standard isn't just a new tool; it's a cultural shift. By opening the "black box" of grading, Dynamics is standardizing expectations for buyers and sellers, reducing disputes, and giving collectors clarity before they ever submit an item.
Encapsulation fees are also strikingly low for an industry accustomed to premium pricing:
- Trading cards & TCGs: as low as $1.25
- Comics: as low as $1.50
- Figurines: as low as $3.50
- Memorabilia: as low as $10.00
These low-tier grading and authentication costs signal a push toward mass adoption and mass vaulting.
A Platform Built on Industrial-Grade Tech and Global Manufacturing
Dynamics isn't new to innovation. The company has previously delivered:
- The world's first high-volume flexible consumer electronics
- Biodefense technologies used during the pandemic, including the first optical-energy system to inactivate SARS-CoV-2
- Collectible platforms managing more than 500 million items
The Authority draws on more than a decade of experience building collectible technology, infrastructure, and manufacturing. It is powered by RFID-embedded cases, an industrial-level vaulting system, and a retail integration model that brings e-commerce speeds to a market previously slowed by shipping, manual grading, and private seller risk.
Collectors Can Start Today
The Authority is live now. Collectors can:
- Transfer purchases instantly from select channel retailers
- Ship collectibles directly for grading, vaulting, and encapsulation
- Buy, sell, negotiate, and fulfill items with the confidence of a fully authenticated marketplace
A Turning Point for the Collectibles Market
With The Authority, Dynamics is attempting something bold: redefining not just how collectors transact, but how the entire industry thinks about grading, authenticity, transparency, and trust.
If successful, this could mark the moment the collectibles world transitions from hobbyist fragmentation to standardized, tech-driven infrastructure, much like the shift from local card shops to eBay in the early 2000s, or from raw cards to slabbed grading over the last decade.
But this time, the shift is happening all at once, in one vertically integrated platform, backed by one of the most advanced tech manufacturers in the space.
For an industry built on passion, rarity, and trust, The Authority may be exactly the kind of system collectors have been waiting for.
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